fowr.html - See: NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL.

fowr.html - n. & v.
(pl. same or fowls) --n.

1 any domestic cock or hen of various gallinaceous birds, kept for eggs and flesh.
2 the flesh of birds, esp. a domestic cock or hen, as food.
3 archaic (except in comb. or collect.) a bird (guineafowl; wildfowl).

--v.

intr. catch or hunt wildfowl.

fowl cholera see CHOLERA . fowl pest an infectious virus disease of fowls. fowl-run 1 a place where fowls may run.
2 a breeding establishment for fowls.

fowler n. fowling n. [OE fugol f. Gmc]

fowr.html - {v. phr.}, {slang} To be very angry, like a mad dog. * /By the time Uncle Henry had the third flat tire he was really foaming at the mouth./

fowr.html - {v.}, {informal} 1. To get something false accepted as good or real. * /The peddler fobbed off pieces of glass as diamonds./ Syn.: PALM OFF, PASS OFF. 2. To put aside; not really answer but get rid of. * /Her little brother asked where she was going, but she fobbed him off with ah excuse./

fowr.html - See: IN A FOG.

fowr.html - {n.}, {slang} An area in downtown Washington, D.C. where many offices of the Department of State are located; hence figuratively, the U.S. Department of State. * /The press secretary gave us a lot of foggy bottom double-talk about the hostage crisis in the Near East./